How to Use Mocha for Tracking and Clean up After Effects - Tips from a Professional VFX Artist

[@LoganPinney]

I can confirm THIS COURSE IS AMAZING! just completing it, you will learn: matching, tracking, keying, ROTO, and some 3D integration 🤟😎 Mark is a wizard and shares his knowledge with ease! Cannot say enough good things about this course!

[@schoolofmotion]

Thanks for the love, Logan! Mark basically downloaded his brain into this course :)

[@grizzlycat]

@@schoolofmotion FAKT

[@lorenzomoro1970]

Very well exposed, plain and simple. "The Secret" is what I was looking for and nobody ever explained. I was going into camera projection and stuff like that... Since "removing things" is a large part of my job, this REALLY saved my life, forever. Thank you very much and keep up the good job!

[@PhillipTheDj]

After so many videos, tutorials, courses, this is the only one that gave me the step by step solution! Mark, really thankful 🙏

[@ScaredDonut]

It still blows my mind how fast and how good Mocha works

[@onurnidayi]

Mark is a VFX Superhero !!

[@lucascassemiro]

This video is amazing, always come back here when I need it.

[@TheLwaddict]

The new logo feels like it’s floating a bit and not fixed in the sign’s plane... just me?

[@fredcastro4252]

It is floating. Unfortunately it´s not such a solid track. I´ve had the same issues with mocha. Sometimes it´s just better to use PF track or even After effect´s built in 3d camera tracker, place a solid there, and use it as a matte. Pretty much the same process but with a different tracking method, and you would still be able to do a little 3d insertion into the shot as well since you would get 3d tracking info and not just planar. But it´s still a very good tutorial, just the track slips a little bit.

[@thomaspayne6866]

@@fredcastro4252 2:42 He used just 30 pixels, so maybe that's why. I use 90.

[@andreivasilevich5360]

I can see the micro movements of a new sign. I was wondering if this would be done better if used the built in AE camera tracker?

[@roei.aftereffects]

Thank you for sharing this technique. where's are the project assets?

[@cloptete1979]

Great video. I tried to follow but had an issue. I'm tracking a circular road sign and when creating tracking data and importing my replacement it's distorted

[@FritzyPacheco]

Im gonna enroll in this class!Yay!

[@tupelotree1024]

How did you track the logo once the re-scaling and corner pin had been applied at 08:35? If you followed the same method as before this would have messed up the sizing and positioning no?

[@StevenRud]

Absolutely brilliant tutorial, thank you so much for sharing!!👍🏻😎

[@agudal8503]

great tip

[@just.do.something]

I will have to master this tutorial. The basics explained perfectly! Thank you School of Motion

[@coyotegames8951]

omg, this video helped me win a 3 HOUR battle with a problem shot that was not playing nice at all. THANK YOU T_T

[@fissunix]

This tutorial is amzing ! thank you !

[@ItsJustMeStevie]

Awesome tutorial! New to Mocha. Question: So I followed your steps. I created two masks, 1st mask was the stop sign and 2nd mask is the street sign. In the Patch comp, when I turn the video into a guide, it throws off the 2nd mask (street sign). This only happens when I don't make the video a guide. Do you know why this would happen?

[@jawadahmed5561]

hi, i have a question. when i am tracking leyer 1 and want to replace the logo from there I will do same what you do but my logo layer was disappear or too much small. what can I do? please sir reply me

[@jamieandrei]

This is fully sik man! Thanks for sharing..

[@annamobeene]

does it works to you?? when i apply the logo (in the video at 3:57), the logo isn't in the correct position. I know i'm doing something wrong. It has to be something regarding the format or the position of the 2 video, but whaat??

[@jamieandrei]

@@annamobeene we sort of used it as a base & hacked it with a few ither techniques.. bit of a mash up.. I know.. that doesn't really help.. soz..

[@mystay88]

Very nice tutorial!! tracking, colour, textures, etc. Very helpful workflow that Mark is showing. Thanks for all that.

[@AdamMotion]

This has nearly sold me on this course!

[@chippsanders9614]

I am just wrapping up the animation course! It has been fantastic. Already signed up for another course that starts in Jan.

[@AshutoshTiwari-n8k]

I did all the things but the layer's position is very far from the placeholder....

[@nijatIbrahimli]

*Great!*

[@kenabisan4731]

can you make one more video on how to put that image in with the right ratio?

[@ben_angel]

THIS!

[@belleville1805]

Thank you so much for thisssss! But my null object is not following my track, also any other of my images :( they all in perfect size with my clip

[@caesaraugustus758]

well done!

[@shardulkattewar6001]

Thank you for Magic bullet! From Belgium

[@felipelyh]

Bro is it safe to download from get into pc

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

I'm having a problem tracking night-time drone footage of a building facade the camera is approaching. I'm trying to create corner pins to create a vertical line/plane for text to track floating just above the footage of the building facade, but the vertical space I created with with the shape tool leans backwards as the created shape moves closer to the camera. I can correct the tracking shape, when I scrub through the footage, but the corner pins lean backwards even though the tracking shape doesn't. When I try to correct the perspective of the corner pins at each end of the footage, it continues to distort. Should I try instead to the Motion Tracking instead?

[@yashthing]

I love this video but i m also facing alot of problems there like error in psd file tracking side of the object.....

[@neildeakin4454]

Excellent.

[@yuraseo1229]

THANK YOU

[@martinkollar1488]

I build a head with FaceBuilder with 4 Pictures and exported this as a OBJ file. The Track with GeoTracker in AE was ok. How can i activate the textures which were build with FaceBuilder?

[@juliocsfarias]

Awesome!!! Thanks!!!

[@AlbertAguirre]

If I manually track when mocha cannot, the tracking goes way off in after affect. Any solution?

[@DanielGrovePhoto]

How do I track a camera pan movement without a surface I want to draw any shapes on?

[@yuriyb2003]

You save my job!

[@kenjirodriguez2771]

Thanks Man this is a great way to cleanup!!!! #killedit

[@sdmjam]

broo, why you didnt remove it from content aware fill or from removing button in mocha?

[@omarleyvaofficial]

Exactly what i was looking for. great tricks

[@noahr8378]

Thanks for this

[@pixelswaag7390]

Super cool!! Great tutorial video Mark.

[@elmomaclroy]

I have a problem. Not my logo stuck to the sign. Stuck somewhere else? Why?

[@annamobeene]

same here, when i apply the logo (as in the video at 3:57), the logo isn't in the correct position. I know i'm doing something wrong. It has to be something regarding the format or the position of the 2 video, but whaat??

[@jen11iver53]

I love this man's vioce.

[@larryerb28]

Can you do this with some other FREE android software for Samsung Tablet?

[@andreivasilevich5360]

the new sign is floating

[@swaupy]

When I apply export, the logo just flies off to a completely wrong part of the frame. Any suggestions on what i did wrong?

[@swaupy]

Solved: My footage was in 4K, bur my compositions were in Full HD. So as my footage was another resolution than both my comps, the tracking data was off.

[@ben_angel]

@@swaupy I have the same issue but with text. How do I fix this with text on a 4k video?

[@swaupy]

@@ben_angel Try pre-composing the text in a 4K (3840x2160) Comp. Then apply it to that composition :)

[@annamobeene]

same here when i apply the logo (as in the video at 3:57), the logo isn't in the correct position. I know i'm doing something wrong. It has to be something regarding the format or the position of the 2 video, but whaat??

[@lintaoma7161]

Thank you Mark for this AMAZING tutorial. And I really want to dive into the full course with you. But my mac seems to take the Mocha tracking time with much more time and difficulties, prompting 'nothing left to track' error message several times. I'm guessing it's due the machine . And how powerful of a machine would be required to take the "VFX For Motion" course? [I have a MacBook Pro (13-in, 2017) 💻: Processor 2.3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5. 💾Memory 8 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3. Storage: 128G. 📷Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536MB]

[@focalpoint545]

Tracking in mocha is very slow...how can one track fast ?

[@jarodgibson]

yea Mocha is an amazing tool !

[@robinmahieux]

Finally a tutorial well done!

[@dollarproduction0]

Excellent Tutorial!

[@EverlastingEclipses]

im trying to put a graphics on the ground floor captured video footage and mocha does track but it somehow loses its head when im trying to copy track data unto the graphics. Making it all jumble mumble

[@flipnap2112]

thats a pretty untechnical description of what's going wrong.

[@narm011]

Great!!! I did this tutorial successfully.

[@annamobeene]

how?? when i apply the logo (as in the video at 3:57), the logo isn't in the correct position. I know i'm doing something wrong. It has to be something regarding the format or the position of the 2 video, but whaat??

[@chupstudios5555]

Its not working for me. When apply the picture, it missing

[@annamobeene]

same here when i apply the logo, did you solved?

[@riccardobrunello2248]

great! thank you

[@gunkat]

oh yeah thanks !

[@asadtech1783]

Nice

[@nealpetrosky4503]

Anyone else have an issue with the freeze frame PNG bing off in color?

[@drewlevin9328]

Check your export preferences and make sure "Convert to sRGB" is unchecked. That fixed it for me, hope it helps!

[@studiopigliacampi2906]

the layer disappear :(

[@jeremytrondesigner]

Nice vid! You didn't respect exactly sign's perspective but thx for sharing the trick :)

[@annamobeene]

does it works to you? when i apply the logo (as in the video at 3:57), the logo isn't in the correct position. I know i'm doing something wrong. It has to be something regarding the format or the position of the 2 video, but whaat??

[@just.do.something]

Could you use the content aware in AE?

[@Prateek_Rathee2102]

Yes..

[@vitalef]

I appreciate the tutorial but you move too quickly through several parts and fail to mention some key steps that leave those of us new to this approach scratching out heads. The cursor jumps around too much to areas not associated with the steps and the screen cuts are too harsh which further confuses. You need smoother transitions from zoom to not zoomed and cursor location highlighters... In the end I've had to spend a couple hours going though it several times only to have substandard results. I still do not understand how to get my replacement assets to to match there actual size 1:1 and my track drifts... and all I'm trying to do is apply a label to a box that pans off screen.

[@ben_angel]

This is exactly my issue. Like, what has to be exactly the same as the footage for it to work? 😄 Did you fix it?

[@RalphGressine]

@@ben_angel Yout gotta make sure the anchor points are the same for both footages. He explains it really well kzbin.info/www/bejne/noHXl6V8qLN7gLs

[@clairvoyant19]

General Kenobi!

[@rigidhammer7376]

The replaced logo is floating. Im not impressed

[@battleframestudios8989]

It looks great tracking wise but the design of the new sign is flawed. When you altered the perspective of the logo you gave it the wrong perspective. Now the motion of the sign into frame looks really trippy. I think the perspective warp was unnecessary to begin with. You could've just photoshopped the logo into the clean plate. That would've been more efficient. You could also add the shadows over top of the logo in photoshop. This would be more effort but I think it would save time AND it would make the motion of the logo into frame not look so trippy.

[@Prime_Chess]

The first one...was floating...

[@AgunkPerkasa]

SO THANK YOUUU... I dont know if plannar can be upsize.. hahahahahah

[@montazh2128]

Better and faster to use stab precomp in mochaimport i think)

[@MisterX-2023]

Broken Link :(

[@schoolofmotion]

Fixed it.

[@AntonisPetroulias]

Perfect, but the download link is a 404. Nice job as always.

[@schoolofmotion]

That link should be working now :)

[@AntonisPetroulias]

Yes it is!

[@annamobeene]

did you find the Black and white logo also?

[@thegroove2000]

THIS IS NUTS.

[@thefacelessone74]

which file do you use? you should add more information on which clip to begin with, where this logo is.. All I can find is a multicolored illustrator file .. ugh.. no helpful at all

[@annamobeene]

he shows that he applied the FILL mask. Did you solve then? Instead i have another problem: when i apply the logo (as in the video at 3:57), the logo isn't in the correct position. I know i'm doing something wrong, maybe something regarding the format or the position of the 2 video, but whaat??

[@The_Daliban]

Wow

[@fully.curious]

Saved my ass dude

[@annamobeene]

does it work for you?? when i apply the logo (as in the video at 3:57), the logo isn't in the correct position. I know i'm doing something wrong. It has to be something regarding the format or the position of the 2 video, but whaat??

[@Rpg844]

It doesn't look right. Logo looks scew or is it just me?

[@sksumon498]

It's not working 😂

[@cmdelavega]

Not really a secret technique, actually one of the common methods to use in Mocha.

[@SoloM1nd]

thats a bad track btw

[@idontthink]

Nice tutorial. But the vocal fry is killing me! 😖

[@ninonicebx]

Way too much bs for nothing.